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Colophon (leaf LLVII verso): Elaboratum impressum q[ue] ... in celebri: libera: imperiali q[ue] vrbe Argentina. opera & impensis sedulis q[uo]q[ue] laborib[us] Prouidi viri Iohannis Reinhardi cognomento Gürninger [sic] ciuis eiusde[m] vrbis arge[n]tinensis: q[ua]rto idus Marcij. absolutum vero Anno domini M. cccc. xcviij

Signatures: [*]⁶ A-Z⁶, AA-II⁶ KK-LL⁸ (LL8 blank), [**]⁶

Many errors in foliation

The woodcut illustrations include: 3-part block of an author seated at his desk (on t.-p, repeated 9 times in text with the blocks in various combinations); 8 integral woodcuts (5 blocks, 3 repeated); and 147 ill. assembled from combinations of 2-5 smaller blocks (many repeated)

Woodcut printer's device (Weil p. 98) on LLVII verso

Leaded text in single column with interlinear gloss, flanked by commentary in double columns

Initial spaces, with ms. initials in red and blue

Printed on sheets of "chancery"-size paper

Includes a prefatory letter and poems by Locher

"Tabula metrorum" by Niccolò Perotti: leaves [*]4v-[*]6v

Includes an abridged version of the commentaries of Pomponius Porphyrio, Pseudo-Acro, Cristoforo Landino and Antonio Mancinelli, edited by Jakob Locher

First illustrated edition

Hain-Copinger

Goff

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy: bibliographic/historical analysis cut from More Books (BPL) laid in

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